It's been about 2 years since the demo "Goat Funeral Night" was released. GRAVLUND ('cemetary' in norwegian) is finally ready with their second punishment entitled "Horns Of Hallucinogenic Creation". Seven brand new tracks is at your disposal on this tape-release, and will for sure quench your thirst if you found the first demo interesting. A vortex of bizarre norwegian black metal. A couple of tracks has been uploaded unto the Unborn Productions' soundcloud which I very much recommend you checking out.

I was more or less immediately blown away when I laid ears upon GRAVLUND's first release "Goat Funeral Night", when I reviewed it for these very pages. The time has now come for the band's second offering, a pro-tape limited to a hundred copies, so you better act fast, if you as well are caught in the vortex of grim Norwegian Black Metal. Usually bands are getting more polished as things move forward and they progress, though things seems upside down with GRAVLUND, as it sounds like they actually have regressed into a more raw and grim form, than what they gave us of audible nightmares on the first release. We are still heavily rooted in old school Norwegian Black Metal with the obvious threads back to their inspirational sources. Grim and raw, dark and cold, eerie and haunting, the atmosphere the guys are able to invoke, with their simplistic take on Metal are enormous and captivating, a fresh and brutal breath. The bastard child of an over the edge Lemmy, DARKTHRONE and HELLHAMMER on various mind enhancing drugs and a depression on top. I can't help it, though something about this band is drawing me in, and it keeps me hurling around in darkness and despair, even after the music has stopped, how some bands are able to create such mindfucks, still tricks my mind, though not many are capable of it! Consider yourself warned! www.unbornproductions.com_________________www.UnbornProductions.com"If you don't listen to Mercyful Fate, you should be stoned to death."
- Negative Plane

Gravlund is, for the record, a black metal band from Tromsø which released, to mostly critical acclaim, an EP called ”Goat Funeral Night” on Unborn Productions back in 2011. Originally a “two-headed” project, the band has since then opened its doors to two more “heads” and started playing live last year. More recently, Gravlund released an EP, out as a pro-tape only called “Horns of Hallucinogenic Creation”. That’s it for the biography so let’s start the carnage.

This whole EP, and probably the whole Gravlund concept, could be summed up in one word: primitive. Total fucking primitive. Gravlund doesn’t play raw, brutal or even necro black metal because Gravlund plays reactionary black metal. That is to say, a black metal full of hate, contempt and rage, rightfully directed towards everything that pollutes extreme music today.

“Horns of Hallucinogenic Creation” is basically a potent reminder that there are still extremists who are fully committed to the spreading of this underground disease known as black metal. Everything on this EP reeks of devotion to the most primitive yet purest form of black metal. While too many old-school wannabes just spend their days mimicking Darkthrone’s brilliant yet redundant recreation of an extreme metal pool that dried up long ago, Gravlund manages never to step out of the boundaries of the noblest of the black arts.

Primitive, reactionary, devoted; or how to put to shame both post-black metal wankers and dirty black hole crew crusties. Buy or die.

Music is pretty good, but seriously: Ever heard of a band called "Graveland"?

yeah it really sounds like some guy from Turkey or something saying "Graveland"

When in reality it's a norwegian saying 'cemetary' in his own language.
It's a fucked up world out there, I know.

But to answer the question, I have never discussed Graveland with
Gravlund, but I'm quite sure they've heard of the band._________________www.UnbornProductions.com"If you don't listen to Mercyful Fate, you should be stoned to death."
- Negative Plane

Then they should know that outside Norway no one cares for Norwegian language, but everyone knows Graveland. Really not a smart choice for a band-name, turn it like you want.

That being said, music is good. But if you choose such an obvious similar band-name, deal with the criticism.

If people feel the need to throw criticism because they had to read the
bandname twice due to the fact that it might look similar to Graveland,
well then, be my guest. I'm just releasing their music._________________www.UnbornProductions.com"If you don't listen to Mercyful Fate, you should be stoned to death."
- Negative Plane

Intel fact! (regarding the "northernmost black metal band in the world"-thread) Gravlund appears to be from Tromso, same city as Nordvrede and Kaevum. Quality, even if this is not even close to the already mentioned, appears from where (almost) the polar bears roam!_________________Catalanian Independence Army - Frak. B21VVII

If it's one thing that inspires to unique black metal, it's the polar bears, hands down._________________www.UnbornProductions.com"If you don't listen to Mercyful Fate, you should be stoned to death."
- Negative Plane

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